Faces Places (film)

Faces Places
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Written by
  • Agnès Varda
  • JR
Produced byRosalie Varda
Starring
  • Agnès Varda
  • JR
Cinematography
  • Claire Duguet
  • Nicolas Guicheteau
  • Valentin Vignet
  • Romain Le Bonniec
  • Raphaël Minnesota
  • Roberto De Angelis
  • Julia Fabry
Edited by
  • Agnès Varda
  • Maxime Pozzi Garcia
Music byMatthieu Chedid
Production
companies
Distributed by
Release dates
  • 19 May 2017 (2017-05-19) (Cannes)
  • 28 June 2017 (2017-06-28) (France)
Running time
93 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Budget$1 million[1]
Box office$4 million[2]

Faces Places (French: Visages Villages) is a 2017 French documentary film directed by Agnès Varda and JR. It follows the pair as they travel around rural France creating portraits of the people they meet. The film was screened out of competition at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival,[3][4] where it won the L'Œil d'or award,[5] and released on 28 June 2017 in France, and on 6 October 2017 in the United States. At the 90th Academy Awards, the film was nominated for Best Documentary Feature.[6]

The film was Varda's second-to-last work, preceding her two episode 2019 documentary series Varda by Agnès.

  1. ^ JP. "Visages Villages". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
  2. ^ "Faces Places (2017)". The Numbers. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
  3. ^ "The 2017 Official Selection". Cannes Film Festival. 13 April 2017. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
  4. ^ Winfrey, Graham (13 April 2017). "2017 Cannes Film Festival Announces Lineup: Todd Haynes, Sofia Coppola, 'Twin Peaks' and More". IndieWire. Penske Business Media. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
  5. ^ Richford, Rhonda (27 May 2017). "Cannes: Agnes Varda's 'Faces Places' Takes Golden Eye Documentary Prize". The Hollywood Reporter. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  6. ^ "Oscars 2018: The list of nominees in full". BBC News. BBC. 23 January 2018. Retrieved 23 January 2018.

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